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Norway is Entering a New Era of Climate-Conscious Architecture (theatlantic.com)
The European Union has a target of making all new buildings zero-energy by 2020, but in Norway, carbon neutrality isn't enough. From a report: A consortium in Oslo made up of architects, engineers, environmentalists, and designers is creating energy-positive buildings in a country with some of the coldest and darkest winters on Earth. "If you can make it in Norway, you can make it anywhere," says Peter Bernhard, a consultant with Asplan Viak, one of the Powerhouse alliance members.
Bernhard says Powerhouse began in 2010 with a question: Is it possible to not only eliminate the carbon footprint of buildings, but to also use them as a climate-crisis solution? It was a lofty goal. According to the European Commission, buildings account for 40 percent of energy usage and 36 percent of carbon-dioxide emissions in the EU. But after undertaking several energy-positive projects -- building a new Montessori school, retrofitting four small office buildings, building a few homes, and breaking ground on two new office buildings -- Powerhouse has found the answer to the 2010 question to be an emphatic "Yes." In 2019, the collective's biggest project to date will open to the public: Powerhouse Brattorkaia, in the central Norwegian city of Trondheim.
Bernhard says Powerhouse began in 2010 with a question: Is it possible to not only eliminate the carbon footprint of buildings, but to also use them as a climate-crisis solution? It was a lofty goal. According to the European Commission, buildings account for 40 percent of energy usage and 36 percent of carbon-dioxide emissions in the EU. But after undertaking several energy-positive projects -- building a new Montessori school, retrofitting four small office buildings, building a few homes, and breaking ground on two new office buildings -- Powerhouse has found the answer to the 2010 question to be an emphatic "Yes." In 2019, the collective's biggest project to date will open to the public: Powerhouse Brattorkaia, in the central Norwegian city of Trondheim.
Seriously.. Do we need 3 scare articles per day about Global Warming? This isn't a geology or climatology website. There's 10x more shit posted about the weather than, you know, news for nerds...
Will be a failure.
See subject: Why do snowflakes FEAR any warming? They already MELT under the normal pressure of life - any warmer, they're extinct!
* RoTfLmAo... picked that up the other day here & it made me LMAO bigtime!
Honestly, how do I see "global warming"? A possible CYCLICAL EVENT like the ice age was - the cause of THAT or this alleged "global warming" imo @ least - normal pattern for the planet QUITE possibly & can WE 'stop it'? DOUBT IT!
I mean, look @ Al Gore: "Do as I SAY but not as I DO" (you go 1st buddy & you do NOT 'practice what you preach' AS YOU ASK FOR "MO' MONEY"): He tells others NOT to burn excess power BUT HAS A COMPOUND IN THE STATE IT'S LOCATED IN THAT BURNS like 1/2 the STATE's POWER CONSUMPTION!!!
Hypocrite conman, nothing more - the 'powers that be' stir you up VIA ORGANIZED RELIGION (I am all for God but NOT MEN USING HIM AGAINST US to create war & profit for them, OR "for the children" (kids are great, men using our sensibilities AGAINST us is not) are DANGEROUS - & the 'game' that "controllers" have used SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME using ourselves against us.
Be VERY aware of that - heck, even a film like APOCALYPTO shows you that in its OWN way (kukulkhan is ANGRY so kill people to appease him bs).
APK
P.S.=> Does it HURT to be good to the environment, get off fossil fuels (big petrol's held us down there as it's their MONEY), recycle etc.? No - but I DOUBT we can beat mother nature doing her thing too... apk
Not every place on earth is so fortunate. If they can make it there they can make it anywhere seems a bit suspect, if you ask me.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
It's called a log cabin. Literally TONS of carbon are locked away for the lifetime of the structure. The more carbon you lock away in the form of trees, the more insulation and thermal mass you have as a result.
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No, you're probably thinking Iceland. Norway has offshore oil.
Almost all power generated in Norway is from hydro; their capacity is something like 105% of their domestic requirement (and they have loads of room to increase that if needed). In that sense they are blessed.
So in this case I wonder if the building is really using geothermal power, or if they are just storing heat underground and remove it when needed?
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
As another commenter has pointed out, I was thinking of Iceland, not Norway... my bad. Still, not every place has an excess of hydroelectric power either, and the point still stands.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
and the next-lastest to rise. Do you want to bother with Norway? Let me tell you, there is nothing up the norway but more cold, more ice, more blackness. It is literally hell on earth.
...you can make it anywhere".
A lot of people think that way. "Well it works here, so why doesn't it work over there?".
Uh-oh . . . that triggered an annoying and frightening musical thought in me . . .
If they can make it there they can make it anywhere
It's up to you . . . Nor-way . . . Nor-way!
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
The warm winds from the African coast go up and around Norway ensuring rather mild winters.
1. Sell tons of oil.
2. Buy Teslas.
3. ???
4. Voila! Carbon neutral!
Norway is very cold. It's maximum average temperature in the summer is around 65F. Heating is *much* cheaper, and easier, than cooling.
A building built take advantage of solar heat in the winter is going to be a nightmare to keep cool in a place that also gets 90F humid summers.
I've heard the most cost--effective place to live, energy-wise, is the desert. It cools off in at night, so you can open up windows and cool a building off, then seal it up during the day and take advantage of swamp cooling, or geothermal, when absolutely required. Plus there is plenty of solar and wind available. The only issue is high density housing is more difficult to cool in those situations.
Now you just need to build it five to ten stories high with fireproofed wood pulp bricks, include modern HVAC, fiber and telecom, water and sewage, other machinery,...
I think you were being sarcastic but in fact they are planning to build a wooden skyscraper in Tokyo.
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True, and but Norway also has some thermal, wind and tidal power. Norway's electric grid is connected to Sweden, Denmark and Holland. Despite that Norway produces 9.3 tons CO2 per capita (in 2014), which is more then EU average.
See subject: Why do snowflakes FEAR any warming? They already MELT under the normal pressure of life - any warmer, they're extinct!
* RoTfLmAo! Picked that up the other day here & it made me LMAO bigtime!
Honestly, how do I see "global warming"?
A possible CYCLICAL EVENT like the ice age was - the cause of THAT or this alleged "global warming" imo @ least - normal pattern for the planet QUITE possibly & can WE 'stop it'? DOUBT IT!
I mean, look @ Al Gore: "Do as I SAY but not as I DO" (you go 1st buddy & you do NOT 'practice what you preach' AS YOU ASK FOR "MO' MONEY"):
He tells others NOT to burn excess power BUT HAS A COMPOUND IN THE STATE IT'S LOCATED IN THAT BURNS like 1/2 the STATE's POWER CONSUMPTION!!!
Hypocrite conman, nothing more - the 'powers that be' stir you up VIA ORGANIZED RELIGION (I am all for God but NOT MEN USING HIM AGAINST US to create war & profit for them), OR "for the children" (kids are great, men using our sensibilities AGAINST us is not) are DANGEROUS - & the 'game' that "controllers" have used SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME using ourselves against us.
Be VERY aware of that!
Heck, even a film like APOCALYPTO shows you that in its OWN way (kukulkhan is ANGRY so kill people to appease him bs).
APK
P.S.=> Does it HURT to be good to the environment, get off fossil fuels (big petrol's held us down there as it's their MONEY), recycle etc.? No - but I DOUBT we can beat mother nature doing her thing too... apk
Since they last longer when immersed in fire, than steel and concrete. I shit you not.
Only large, thick logs/beams though. Obviously not heaps of twigs.
Replying to myself to be clear. When we say that almost all Norwegian power comes from hydro, that refers to electric power.
THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES NAZI FAGGOT KEN DOLL
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
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Cause that's how you get mold.
Norway could stop extracting and selling hydrocarbons? Who is worse, the user or the drug dealer? Climate conscious my ass.
Do the projected energy costs over the existing buildings use get paid back in savings by retrofitting?
Are the new energy costs so large that new spending on retrofitting is the only way to keep the cost of energy low?
How about getting low cost energy for everyone in Norway and not having to pay for "retrofitting"?
Put that "retrofitting" money to some other better use? Like making energy low cost so existing buildings don't have to pay extra for new "retrofitting"?
Low cost energy would be great for all of Norway.
All kinds of business can pay less for power, older building stay warm. Exports from a productive Norway are better priced globally.
New and emerging business won't have to pay for "retrofitting" the buildings they work in and can enjoy lower rent.
Lower rent and less tax, no retrofitting costs, low power prices.
When new buildings are finally needed, build them new to better standards.
They pay less for power now and put that money to improving products and exports. Energy costs and "retrofitting" just takes money away.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
CA recently requires that all new buildings have so many sq feet of solar on their roof top. That is actually a horrible regulation since it really does not accomplish much, except take business away from local utility.
Instead, they should have required that all new buildings of 6 stories and under have enough on-site unsubsidized AE to => the HVAC's energy usage. This way, it gives developers choices on where to spend, be it LED lighting or better, more insulation, better windows, and/or ideally a geo-thermal HVAC, OR to buy much bigger AE systems, such as solar.
Fact is, it would be better for developers to spend it on the first, so as to not spend so much on the AE system.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Nothing is lower than you WindBourne.
Why suspect and lie when you can just check?